Dear All, I have NEVER been requested MANDATORY payment - so I have consulted the published information for the authors - see below. (link and excerpt from this link!) The clear statement is: Payment is not obligatory nor is it a prerequisite for publication. (as long as you do not use excess pages!!) Best adam [1]http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_iportals/iportals/publications/ authors/transjnl/auinfo07.pdf A. Page Charges IEEE Policy 6.9 permits some types of periodicals to levy Page Charges. If your publication is one of these, it is your company or institution, not you, which is being asked for support. Payment is not obligatory nor is it a prerequisite for publication. Such support is based on the philosophy that the usual research or development project is complete only when results have been disseminated to the engineering and scientific community and that it is thus proper that the financing of the project include funds to support, in part, the cost of publication. Page charges are widely used throughout the scientific publishing community and are widely accepted. For example, most U.S. Government agencies recognize the payment of page charges as a legitimate part of the cost of performing research and development work under Government contracts. Page charges are levied for each printed page. Payment entitles the author to 100 reprints (covers are not included). Self-covers and additional reprints may be ordered at the prices noted on the IEEE Page Charge and Reprint Order Form. B. Mandatory and Overlength Page Charges IEEE Policy 6.10 permits some types of periodicals to levy mandatory charges for each page in excess of a page limit set by that publication. The charge itself is adjusted each year to reflect costs. The purpose of this mandatory charge is to encourage adherence to the publication's budget and to provide funding for excess pages if an author has not been able to meet the stated length requirement. The same publication may be permitted to request Page Charges as well. Please check the wording of your IEEE Page Charges and Reprint Order Form carefully.
References 1. http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_iportals/iportals/publications/authors/transjnl/auinfo07.pdf _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
